Leonid Grigorievich Brailovsky ( 1918 - 1992 ) - Soviet theater critic and theater expert, also a teacher.
| Brailovsky Leonid Grigorievich | |
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| Date of Birth | December 14, 1918 |
| Place of Birth | Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Russia |
| Date of death | January 26, 1992 ( 73) |
| A place of death | Rostov-on-Don , Russia |
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Russia |
| Spouse | Lilia Petrovna Aryeva |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Sources
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born December 14, 1918 in Rostov-on-Don in a Jewish family.
In 1937 he graduated from Rostov secondary school No. 5 and in the same year entered the history department of the Rostov Pedagogical Institute .
When the Great Patriotic War began, Leonid was a 4th year student; He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to study at the First Rostov Artillery School. At the end of the school, having received the rank of lieutenant , from February 1942 he fought on the Southwestern Front; in the Izyum-Barvenkovsky direction, part of him was surrounded and Brailovsky was captured, where he spent more than three years, being in concentration camps . He managed to survive, posing as Ingush. [1] His parents, who remained in the war in Rostov, were shot in the Zmievsky beam .
In April 1945, he was liberated by the Red Army and sent for special checks. Demobilized in April 1946, Leonid Brailovsky returned to Rostov-on-Don. He was restored at the Faculty of History of the Pedagogical Institute, which he graduated in 1947. I could not work as a history teacher, since I was a non-partisan Jew who was in German captivity. Having lost the opportunity to work in his specialty, Brailovsky decided to study chess and theater. He headed the children's chess section in the house management, worked as a coach in the chess club and in the Don department of the sports society " Trud ". He himself became a candidate for the master, and then - a judge of the republican category.
At the same time, Leonid Grigoryevich independently studied the history of Russian and foreign art, and from the beginning of the 1950s he devoted his life to the theater. His reviews were published in departmental newspapers, as well as in the local and central press. Over the next forty years, he wrote many reviews of performances staged in the Don theaters - Rostov , Taganrog , Novocherkassk and Shakhty . In 1954, he was admitted to the All-Russian Theater Society of the RSFSR. In the Rostov organization of the Union of Theater Workers of the RSFSR, he headed the criticism and theater studies section.
From the late 1950s, Brailovsky received a permanent teaching job: from 1959 to 1965 he taught aesthetics at the Rostov Art College , from 1965 to 1968 he lectured on the history of Russian and foreign theater and the basics of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics at the acting department of the Rostov School of Art . Since 1980, he simultaneously taught a special course on the history of theatrical art at the philological and other departments of Rostov State University .
He died on January 26, 1992 in Rostov-on-Don.
At the house at 141 Pushkinskaya Street, where the theater critic and teacher lived and worked, a memorial plaque was opened to him . [2]
Sources
- Theatrical Encyclopedia. - Moscow, 1965. - V. 5. - S. 143-144.